>
>The discussion about using or not using NT is getting really boring.
>
>For me it is like the anti-tabagist movements. When you buy a cigarrete pack it
>is written in big letters that the use of tobaco can cause, amont other
>diseases, cancer. When you see at cigarrete adds you can read the same
>information, when you hear the cigarette adds in the radio, you can read the
>same information, so if you use tobaco, you KNOW that you can get cancer.
>
>The same happens with MS Windows NT: everybody knows that the OS is plagued
>with horrible bugs, that there are several important misconceptions in the
>design of the product, that is is really extremelly fragile to very very simple
>attacks and so forth.
>
I don't believe that this is true. I believe that there are hundreds if not
thousands of companies that by Windows NT without knowing that the OS is
plagued with horrible bugs. Thing of the percentage of people who are subscribed
to things like bugtraq and ntbugtraq vs. the actual number of companies.
There are a lot of people out that that have no idea except that they need
a firewall for something, and that they know windows, so they decide to get
a firewall on NT. I know several companies like this. Microsoft tells them
it's secure. Now, one could argue that it's their own fault for not going
out and finding information, but only so far. After all, if somebody tells you
something is secure, and you have no reason to doubt them, then why spend
a lot of time trying to prove it isn't when you have no reason to believe so?
>When someone or some group of people decide to use MS Windows NT/98/95 and the
>related products as base of company Information Systems, THEY KNOW what they're
>doing.
>
I don't believe this either. This is not necessarily true.
(same goes for Unix though, or anything else)
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